Waves in Random Media

, volume 14 , issue 4 , pages R1-R40

A critical survey of approximate scattering wave theories from random rough surfaces

Tanos Mikhael Elfouhaily ^{1, 2}

Charles-Antoine Guérin ³

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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique , IRPHE , Marseille, France |

University of Miami , RASMS-AMP, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, OPS 11 Miami, Florida, 33149-1098, USA |

Institut Fresnel, Faculté des Sciences de Saint-Jérôme , Marseille, France |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2004-10-01

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DOI: 10.1088/0959-7174/14/4/r01

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Abstract

This review is intended to provide a critical and up-to-date survey of the analytical approximate methods that are encountered in scattering from random rough surfaces. The underlying principles of the different methods are evidenced and the functional form of the corresponding scattering amplitude or cross-section is given. The reader is referred to the original papers in order to obtain the explicit expressions of the coefficients and kernels. We have tried to identify the main strengths and weaknesses of the various theories. We provide synthetic tables of their respective performances, according to a dozen important requirements a valuable method should meet. Both scalar acoustic and vector electromagnetic theories are equally addressed.

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Yunin Pavel

PhD in Physics and Mathematics

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Institute for Physics of Microstructures of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

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Crystalline materials

X-ray diffraction (XRD)

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DO - 10.1088/0959-7174/14/4/r01

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TI - A critical survey of approximate scattering wave theories from random rough surfaces

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@article{2004_Elfouhaily,

author = {Tanos Mikhael Elfouhaily and Charles-Antoine Guérin},

title = {A critical survey of approximate scattering wave theories from random rough surfaces},

journal = {Waves in Random Media},

year = {2004},

volume = {14},

publisher = {Taylor & Francis},

month = {oct},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1088/0959-7174/14/4/r01},

number = {4},

pages = {R1--R40},

doi = {10.1088/0959-7174/14/4/r01}

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Elfouhaily, Tanos Mikhael, et al. “A critical survey of approximate scattering wave theories from random rough surfaces.” Waves in Random Media, vol. 14, no. 4, Oct. 2004, pp. R1-R40. https://doi.org/10.1088/0959-7174/14/4/r01.

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